Survival for all, my island is the last pure land on earth.

After the familiar dizziness subsided, Jin Xiaoman opened her eyes and saw an endless, flat wilderness stretching out between heaven and earth. At the edge of her vision, a pale yellow energy shield surrounded her.

In the middle of the wilderness, a lone high platform stood, surrounded by a milky-white energy shield. Jin Xiaoman looked around and saw a staircase leading down behind her.

A line of large red characters appeared in the sky: [Current Round: Round 1, Gnatif Rat]

Countdown: 10 seconds

8s

3s

1s】

In the distance, out of Jin Xiaoman's sight, clouds of dust billowed up as they raced forward, reaching the vicinity of the pale yellow energy shield in the blink of an eye.

After a struggle, only five hundred rodents were allowed into the area.

As they drew closer, before she could even discern what species they were, Jin Xiaoman first smelled a familiar scent—the mutated rats from that day's frenzy.

This time, no information about the mutated beasts popped up on the personal panel, but fortunately, Jin Xiaoman knew their specific stats.

Jin Xiaoman took out the rocket launcher from the treasure chest, slung it over her shoulder, and aimed it at the dark figure below: "May you be reborn into a better family in your next life."

"boom--"

With one shot, flames shot into the sky, smoke billowed, and the hissing and howling of the gnats filled the air.

Once the rats stepped into the fifty-meter range, they gradually revealed their true forms, each with red eyes and fangs, glaring angrily at Jin Xiaoman on the high platform, wishing they could tear her to pieces.

Unfortunately, the word "fear" only appears when one's strength is insufficient, but she now possesses absolute truth.

After three rockets, the rats that had been running in a huddle suffered heavy casualties, but they quickly realized they needed to disperse, so they split into four groups and surrounded the tower.

The rocket launcher was no longer useful at this point, so Jin Xiaoman took out the long spear.

The platform is only a meter square, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Especially when creatures of the level of the toothed rat attack, it poses no threat whatsoever.

Jin Xiaoman's long spear twirled with beautiful silver flecks, knocking away dozens of rats with a single thrust, and sweeping across an entire row in one sweep.

Usually, they were instantly killed as soon as they showed their heads, with no chance to attack the protective shield on the high platform. In just half a minute, the toothed rats were almost all killed or wounded, and the remaining dozen or so that tried to run away were also accurately killed by Jin Xiaoman with a sniper rifle.

However, what Jin Xiaoman considers a very easy level is a disaster for some players.

Zhu Jin is considered an above-average player among the 100,000 players. He has not only upgraded his safe house to level two, but has also accumulated a terrifying thirteen Hearts of Purification. He is very confident that he can upgrade his safe house to level three before the end of the dry season.

As for weapons, he was even more confident. For this dungeon game, he spent all his savings to buy the longbow that his mother sold with a punch that weighed 300 tons. In addition, he had already opened a dagger in a treasure chest. His strength was terrifying.

With this setup, he could hold his own against ghouls even on a deserted island.

That's why he looks down on Qian Manman and Lao Niang Yi Quan San Bai Tun on the wealth list, believing they are just two women who somehow managed to get on the list through some kind of opportunistic trickery. Right now, this game is the perfect opportunity for him to show his masculinity and let them see that the strong are not defined by the list.

But when he saw the swarm of rats below, his mind went blank.

The rats crowded together frantically, climbing, entwining, biting each other, and piling on top of each other, all in an effort to climb onto the high platform.

"How can there be so many? It's terrifying!"

There were rats on the night the dry season started, but after he knew the level 2 safe house would be safe, he went back to sleep and didn't kill any.

Zhu Jin's palms were sweaty, and his hand holding the longbow was trembling. He nocked the arrow, wanting to shoot the rat, but then he thought, no, if the arrow were in the forest, he could retrieve it after killing the mutated beast. But now that they were in the dungeon, with so many rats down there, once the arrow was shot, it would be gone forever.

"What should we do?"

He panicked instantly, and only realized he had a dagger after the rat had climbed onto the platform.

He comforted himself, thinking that the high platform was so small that it would be easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After he finally mustered the courage to kill a few rats with his dagger, a sharp alarm sounded from the platform: [The energy shield has 20% of its energy remaining and is about to be destroyed.]

[Warning: The energy shield has only 5% of its energy remaining and is about to be destroyed.]

[Player "I Am a Man" has been removed from the game instance "The Last High Ground". A total of twenty Gnatif Rats were killed, earning 50 points.]

Zhu Jin's pupils contracted. What? Only 50 points?

"The game must be too hard. There are so many rats, no one could possibly kill them all."

He tried to comfort himself while flipping through the real-time player rankings for this instance of the game, provided by the game's system.

Upon seeing his ranking on the list, the smile on his face completely vanished.

"How could someone with so much money in their bank account have only 500 points?"

A terrifying thought swirled in his mind: Money Manman had slaughtered all the rats on the field. Zhu Jin slumped to the ground, silent for a long time, feeling that his worldview had been challenged.

The voice of game awareness echoed in the ears of players both inside and outside the instance.

[The first round of the rodent elimination has ended, with a total of 44356 people eliminated, of whom 5038 died.]

The points rankings also stabilized at this point.

[NO.1, Plenty of Money: 500 Points]

NO2, No. 2775: 500 points

NO3, Dipped Beans: 500 points

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NO.10, Gone with the Wind: 500 points

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NO. 15, My punch weighs 300 tons: 500 points

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NO. 99, Big Horn Bull charges forward with chest out: 432 points

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The list is very long, including all of the top 100 players, and many players who did not participate in the dungeon game are sending messages in the public chat channel.

[How come so many people died? Wasn't it said that you could withdraw from the competition at any time?]

Hey, stop talking about it. A friend of mine went there and came back completely speechless; he's practically dumbfounded.

How come there are rankings when everyone has the same points?

[You definitely participated in the competition. We saw it clearly from outside. The guy with lots of money was the first to reach 500 points. It's probably based on the time it took.]

[From this day forward, I am the most steadfast supporter of the Money King! Long live the Money King!]

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